The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-06
ME-. MoopY,s MANAGER.
Fe Talks Pleasantly About tho Char
acte~ist.cs OF the Great Revivalist.

Fe Talks Pleasantly About tho Char
acterist.c5 OF the Great Revivalst.
from the Lotisvilie Coufier-Jouruai.
Mr. Thomas r. Cree, of New York, man
aeer and assistant of Rev. D. L. Moody, is
in the city, arranging for the coming Of the
great evangelist. Mr.. Cree, who is the
guest Of Mr.. John b. McFerran, was
seen last evening by reporter, and talked
pleasantly of MIR. Moody and his work Mr..
Cree has been associated with Mr.. Moody
in his labors for the past ten years, assist
ing at his principal revival meetings at
Philadelphia, Chicago, and elsewhere, as
manager and aiding in the inquiry-room.
"Mr. Moody is now holding a very sue
cesSful meeting at Pittsburg," said Mr..
Cree, land will remain there until the holt.
days. Thence he will go to Northfield,
Mass, his home, aud spend the holiday sea-
son with his family. He will reach Louis
vile about Jan l, and will remain here
a month, as at present arranged. We are
anticipating a very successful meeting here.
Mr.. Moody considers Louisville and Balti-
more among the most moral of the larger
cities. He was here for two or three days
about three years ago attending Christian
convention, but did no evangelistic work
VdIs NOIlblluOtl OI6t, 10 Ill
fine health and condition. He is seldom, if
ever, sick, and during all of his twenty-five
years of religious work | don't think he has
missed three engagements ON account of
sickness He is a very large man, weighing
about $50 pounds, and has powerful lungs
and a splendid voice. He is not susceptible
to cold, and rarely suffers from hoarseness
or huskiness of voice. However large the
building no difficulty is experienced IN hear
ing him even in the rear seats.
WHERE HIS GREATNESS LIES.
"Mr. Moody's great strength as Chris
tan worker lies in his knowledge of the
Bible, his earnestness, his sincerity, his sim
plicity and his great sympathetic nature
His remarkable faculty of aptly illustrating
by incidents is also one Of his great ele-
ments of strength These incidents are
mostly of his own experience, and are most
effectively narrated. When he opens work
in new field, the first audience, it can be
plainly seen, gathers mainly to judge the
man. After the first one or two meetings,
criticism of his motives and methods is laid
aside, and admiration of and devotion to
the man take possession of those who
gather to listen to his earnest but simple
words.
"He sways vast bodies of people as no mod
ern evangelist ever has, and his sympathy
with his hearers is so close and so warm
that people are drawn instinctively to him
When he is pleading with the people, and re-
lates pathetic incident by way of illustra-
ton, thousands of heads are bowed in silent
weeping.
STYLE NOT TO BE DESCRIBED.
"No one has ever yet been able to de-
scribe accurately Mr.. Moody, his mode of
work, and the nature of his sermons. He
never writes a sermon. | have known him
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arranged in his mind, and then deliver an
entirely different sermon because he found a
different audience than that he was expect
ing to address. He is often wonderfully elo-
quent, but he employs only the simplest
language, and deals in no stilted rhetoric or
flowery figures of speech. His addresses are
remarkable, from the fact that they are
alike suited to all classes. | have seen upon
the platform with him the President of the
United States, Cabinet Ministers, United
States Senators, Congressman, college
Presidents and the most distinguished doc
tors OF divinity, and they were as visibly
impressed with his power as were the hum
blest hod-carrier and coal-heaver in the au-
dience.
HIS RECEPTION IN ENGLALD.
"In England Mr. Gladstone, Mr.. Bright
and other such leading men attended his
meetings, and his sermons were apparently
as enjoyable to them as to the masses in the
audience. Men and women, young and
old rich and poor, sit side by side at his
meetings, and his converts are from all
classes and all walks of life.
Mr. Moody has addressed 10000 people
at time. At Philadelphia, where his hall
seated about 14,000 thousands were turned
away at each meeting. The doors were
opened at intervals, that those who wished
to do SO might leave, and very few of the
vast audiences ever stirred. Supreme
quiet always reigns and the interest never
flags.
''Mr Moody always confines his services
to one hours duration, and his sermons are
usually about thirty minutes long. Yet
upon special occasions l have known him to
preach for two and even three honrs, and
the people were always glad to listen. On
Sunday he usually holds three and some
times five services, and upon the week days
two services, except upon Saturday, when
he holds none We always have choirs of
800 or 400 voices, which are trained in adj
vance. A gentleman will shortly reach
Louisville for the purpose of organizing and
training such choir in advance of Mr.
Moody's coming We also wish to secure
the services of about 100 young men to act
as ushefs. Mr.. Moody has, of late years,
engaged in short revival meetings, but he
will remain in Louisville longer than is his
custom, on account Of the extensive prepa
rations that have been made.n
HIS OLD PARTNER.
"What has become of Mr.. Sankey, Mr..
Moody's former co-laborerg was asked.
''He is now III Brooklyn, his home, and is
busy with the preparation of a new hymn
book. He is still connected, i'll a degree,
with Mr.. Moody's work, but does considera-
BILE evangelistic work himself, and has been
very successful"
Mr. Moody is in his 51sr year, and has
been engaged in evangelistic work twenty
five years. He is mafsied and has three
children He was born at Mortified, Mass,
and was converted at Boston. He removed
to Chicago, and engaged, in early life, in
the shoe business. He soon after engaged in
religious work under the Young Mems
Christian Association, and rapidly
developed into a powerful evangelist He
first visited England about ten years ago,
and met with great success in the face of
violent opposition. Upon his return to this
country, invitations from all the leading
cities poured in upon him, and the subse-
quent success of his work has been uniuter-
rupted and his history is well known. He
again visited England three years ago.
DONATIONS FOR SCHOOLS AND CHRISTIAN
WORK.
Mr.. Moody has donated great deal of
money to the founding of schools and other
Christian work He has devoted all the
ROYALTY from fine sale of his hynn-bOOk